Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:45:45 -0700

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:43:33PM -0400, Dan Maas wrote:
> (hrm, maybe I could hack up my own manual read-ahead/drop-behind with mmap()
> and memory locking...)

Just to argue portability for a moment (portability on the expected
results, that is, vs APIs).

Would this technique work across a variety of OSes?

Would the recent caching difficulties of the 2.4.* series have handled such
a technique in a reasonable fashion?

mrc

-- 
     Mike Castle      dalgoda@ix.netcom.com      www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
    We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.  -- Watchmen
fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/